Which sport is the best to bet on?

With the support of the Betting Academy website, it’s possible to gather information to understand which sport is the best to bet on. There, you can find opinions and information sharing of other users on the forum page, where the sports betting representative in Portugal, Paulo Rebelo, and other users provide a diary. Here is possible to understand his experience with sports betting regarding his knowledge in the subject and specialization on the sports he bets. The most discussed sports in this forum, between the most popular bettors in Portugal, are football and tennis.

Nowadays bookmakers have much more offer when it comes to sports betting comparing to a few years back.

But for a while now the best sports to bet on are (in order of liquidity and bettors options on an international level):

• Football;
• Horseracing;
• Tennis;
• Basketball;
• NFL (American football);

Horseracing is one of the most popular and traditional sports sports, specially between English, American and Australian. In Portugal, for example, the focus is on Football, Tennis, Basketball, Snooker and other sports.

But choosing what is the best sport to bet on is not an easy task. The best sport doesn’t exist because, in fact, it’s all a matter of preference and also choosing a sport that makes sense to each bettor. Here are some tips to help to choose which one is the most appropriate sport to bet on:

• It’s important to know the sport very well, the format, the rules and it’s adaptations to the sports betting world;
• Choose popular sports with high number of events and markets, such as football or basketball, two sports that are complete in the betting world;
• Availability for the streaming support is also very important so you can watch the match in real time. This can increase you betting level a lot;
• Focus on knowing how to take advantages and avoid disadvantages of watch sport, for example: football is a sport that involves 11 players, with that in mind, extracting the information about each player is much more complicated than with tennis or basketball, where only 2 players or 5 players, respectively.
• The ease of having access to statistic information is important to help making a decision;
• If the bettor lives in a country where certain sport is very popular and takes part of the tradition, which is going to bring many advantages in terms of knowledge.